Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface to the third edition -- Disclaimer -- Abbreviations -- Definitions -- Summary and recommendations -- The right to a nationality in African laws -- Racial, ethnic and religious discrimination -- Gender discrimination -- Naturalisation -- Dual nationality -- Loss, deprivation and arbitrary non-recognition -- International norms -- Recommendations -- International norms on nationality -- The right to a nationality and prohibition of statelessness -- Nationality in the context of state succession -- Deprivation or non-recognition of nationality and expulsion from a territory -- The jurisprudence of the African human rights bodies -- African states' accession to international treaties -- Nationality under colonial rule and the transition to independence -- The basis of nationality law today -- The right to a nationality in national law -- Nationality based on birth in the territory -- Children of stateless parents or who would otherwise be stateless -- Foundlings or children of unknown parents -- Nationality based on descent -- Adopted children -- Racial and ethnic discrimination -- Gender discrimination -- Nationality of children -- Nationality based on marriage -- Partial reforms on gender equality in North Africa -- Dual nationality -- Naturalisation -- Nationality requirements for public office -- Dual nationality -- Naturalised persons -- Rights for the African diaspora -- Ethiopia -- Ghana -- Loss and deprivation of nationality -- Renunciation and reacquisition -- Evidence and documentation -- Birth registration and evidence of entitlement to nationality -- Proof of nationality -- The right to a passport -- State successions since independence -- Separation of part of a territory -- Transfers of territory -- Naturalisation as a "durable solution" for refugees -- Appendix: Legal sources.

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